Oscar-winning screenplay and Doris Day was nominated for Best Actress, rare for a comedy. And of course Thelma Ritter received a Best Supporting Actress nomination. Such a delightful film. Another great one I highly recommend is Teacher's Pet with Doris and Ckark Gable. That has an Oscar-nominated screenplay as well as a great. Oscar-nominated performance by Gig Young as Best Supporting Actor.
Doris Day was one of the great singers to come out of the big band era. She is the only one I know who can sing a smile. She was also a superb actress. You should watch "Midnight Lace" (1960) for her in a serious role.
The radio station we played all the time when I was growing up played a lot of Doris Day singing . Here was one of my favorites: czcams.com/video/3FOTzC-0xg0/video.html
Yes, another serious role where she also gets to do some fabulous singing is in “Love Me or Leave Me.” (1955) She holds her own in that film against powerhouse actor James Cagney, and that is not an easy thing to do.
@@Dej24601 Oh so true! She seemed to have had a positive experience with him though: czcams.com/video/3Ktl1PfcpwA/video.html (about 3:20 for the section on Cagney). Cagney was a powerhouse and one of the best around and he does seem to have been generous with his costars and other actors.
@@Dej24601 She never gave a bad performance. Even in a piece of musical fluff like Calamity Jane, she managed to show some depth. That movie was mostly about the songs and it is worth watching just for that. She was a great singer.
One thing to note. Doris Day and Rock Hudson were very close friends. When Rock Hudson was dying of AIDS it was a media frenzy you couldn't believe. A lot of people who knew Rock were afraid to talk about or support him at the time. Doris Day was one of the only ones to stick by him, as well as Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor starred with Rock and James Dean in his final role in the epic movie Giant. Doris Day was also a huge animal advocate. I believe she started the first dog friendly hotel. At least one of the first in the U.S. She also started the Doris Day Pet Foundation. Now it's called the Doris day Animal Fund. Her non-profit helped to find good homes for animals that would otherwise be put down. It also did spay and neutering.
Doris Day's film career is well worth exploring. After co-starring in Hitchcock's 1956 remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much", Day went on to make some delightfully sophisticated comedies in the 60's, three of which featured Rock Hudson and Tony Randall. "Lover Come Back" has always been a personal favorite of mine.
Back then, it wasn’t unusual to pick up the telephone only to hear people already talking and they were not talking to you. It was called a party line.
Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall starred in three films together. ‘Pillow Talk (1959)’, ‘Lover Come Back (1961)’, ‘Send Me No Flowers (1964)’. My favourite of these films is Lover Come Back. I also enjoy Doris Day in ‘Calamity Jane (1953)’ and ‘Teacher’s Pet (1958)’.
Thelma Ritter is a legend - my favourite films of hers are 'A Letter to Three Wives' and 'The Mating Season' where she is, for once, the central character.
Doris Day was originally a singer, she started out with the Les Brown band (Big Band type) and had two number 1 singles in 1945. Mrs. Walker (the lady with the huge house and mom of Toney) was Effy in the Maltese Falcon, Boggies secretary. This is a very underrated movie.
Doris Day did another great romcom in 1963 with James Garner, "Move Over, Darling," with Thelma Ritter as her mother-in-law. A woman comes home after years on a desert island following a shipwreck on the very day her husband gets her declared legally dead and married to a new wife.
Also check out "That Touch of Mink" with Doris Day and Cary Grant and - especially - "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" with Tony Randall and the amazing Jayne Mansfield. Some of the funniest writing ever and you'll wonder how the Hayes Code let a lot of the dialogue stay in the film.
There are a bunch of movies like this one made in the "old days." Discovering them on your own is part of what make them special. I know at two movies that I know you would like but won't ruin you discovering them on your own.
Yay! I am so happy to see a reaction to Pillow Talk! 😊 One piece of advice on your thumb nails, they aren't eye-catching. I almost missed this reaction. The title fonts and colors do not stand out. I noticed the same thing on Legends of the Fall, wrong font and no use of color somewhere to catch the eye. Just some feedback.
The split screen was a pretty new idea at that time. It was said back during WW2 the troops would say Rita Hayworth was the girl they wanted to go out with but Doris Day was the one they wanted to come home to. Doris had a string of great 1960's comedies with Lover Come Back, Send Me No Flowers, Move Over Darling and The Thrill of it All. Her male co stars were Rock Hudson, Cary Grant and James Garner.....lucky guys.
I remember my parents' party line in the early 60s, from 60 years later it's impossible to explain it to those born past 1970. The Kinks had a song called "Party Line": Hello, who's that speaking, please? I'm on a party line Wonderin' all the time Who's on the other end? Is she big, is she small? Is she a she at all? Who's on my party line? Wish I had a more direct connection This party line was here when I arrived And I'm not voting in the next election If they don't do something about finding out The person who is on my party line I'm on a party line I'm on a party line
I think you would absolutely enjoy Thelma Ritter in two very delightful comedies The Model and the Marriage Broker and The Mating Season. Plus you'll discover two beauties Jeanne Crain and Gene Tierney!!!
You might enjoy Down With Love. It's not a parody, more an homage to the Rock and Doris films. It was made 20 years ago with Renee Zelwegger and Euan McGregor.
You probably already know this but if not look this up. Thelma Ritter starred in ‘Miracle on 34th Street (1947)’, Titanic (1953)’, and ‘Rear Window (1954)’.
Doris Day is a fine actress. The 1956 movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is a fine movie and she gave a really superb performance in it. A remake of an earlier Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name. It's a shame that the "Ya Ya Roly, Poly..." scene wasn't shown in full during this video.
Pillow Talk (1959) was the first of three romantic comedies starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. These were hugely successful and far superior to today’s cheap, tacky ‘rom-coms’. You must check out the other two. These were: 1. “LOVER COME BACK” (1961) In this film, they play rival advertising executives who unwittingly fall in love with each other. 2. “SEND ME NO FLOWERS" (1964) This was their third and final film together. Hudson plays a hypochondriac who believes he is dying and tries to find a new husband for his wife, played by Day. However, there were a few other excellent, charming and fun romantic comedies I’d also highly recommend: “COME SEPTEMBER” (1960) With Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida “IT STARTED IN NAPLES” (1960) With Sophia Loren and Clark Gable “THE THRILL OF IT ALL” (1963) With Doris Day and James Garner “TEACHER’S PET” (1958) With Doris Day and Clark Gable
I always love Doris Day my first love always put a smile To my face, she was a triple threat and was the number-one star for four years in a row lived to ninety-seven
Saying that some guys are devoted to their mothers and like to collect cooking recipes is a euphemism for being gay. That is why the Doris day character said “you are sick“. Brad was implying that if a man would take a woman to a hotel and not try anything that must mean he is not interested in women.
Ok, your comment at 18:45 “Watching this in 2024, y’know, most western countries having gone absolutely crazy on this stupid s-t” - has won me as a subscriber. I agree 100%. I’ve just subscribed to you.
DORIS DAY MOVIES ARE GREAT, ESPECIALLY WITH ROCK HUDSON!!! TONY RANDALL'S IN MANY, TOO!❤❤❤❤👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤❤❤❤👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻SOME SUGGESTIONS--- "SEND ME NO FLOWERS" "MOVE OVER, DARLING" "LOVER COME BACK" "THE THRILL OF IT ALL"
While the gender politics of this show their age it's still a delightful view if you don't let get in the way. I share your love of Thelma Ritter who made any film better. Any movie she made is worth watching because of her presence but two I'd recommend, one dramatic one comic for both of which she was Oscar nominated. "Pick-Up on South Street" is now considered a seminal noir and offers her the role which was the most outside her established persona but which she handles beautifully. A terrific film that also costars Richard Widmark and Jean Peters. The more lighthearted one is "The Mating Season" which I believe someone else mentioned. Although she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her part she's really the lead character and a bit of studio politics were involved in her placement. The film costars Gene Tierney who at the time was one of 20th Century Fox's top female stars so she never would have been considered a supporting actress in any picture she appeared in thereby placing Thelma there though she has more screen time and the film revolves around her story. It's a delightfully down to earth charmer with Thelma (mother of the groom who has never met her daughter-in-law) being mistaken for the new maid and deciding to play along. Before Pillow Talk most of Doris Day's films were musicals (she was one of the top recording artists of the later 40's, 50's and into the 60's) but afterwards she concentrated mostly on comedies, usually singing the title song over the credits. Her best performance came in the 1955 biography of 20's singer Ruth Etting "Love Me or Leave Me" (she should have scored a nomination for her work) costarring James Cagney. Other movies of hers to seek out "Romance on the High Seas" (her screen debut-a starring role she stepped into to replace a pregnant Betty Hutton), "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (directed by Alfred Hitchcock), "The Thrill of It All", "Calamity Jane" and her other two pairings with Rock Hudson "Send Me No Flowers" & "Lover Come Back" though most of her films are at least enjoyable time passers. Like Doris "Pillow Talk" provided a sea change in the direction of Rock Hudson's career. Before it most of his films were either melodramas or swashbuckling adventures but after he also turned more to comedy, though he interspersed more dramas and action flicks in between than Doris did. He was a favorite of director Douglas Sirk, really more of a protégé, Sirk cast him in the film that made him a star "Magnificent Obsession" (a hugely successful but drippy melodrama) after years of Rock working his way up the ladder and then used him many times after that in a most successful partnership. Some of the better films they worked on together-"Written on the Wind" (considered by many to be Sirk's peak), "The Tarnished Angels" and "All That Heaven Allows" . Others of his filmography very much worth seeing-"Come September", "Giant", "This Earth is Mine" "The Last Sunset", "Bend of the River" and the film he thought was his best work the complex and very dark "Seconds".
I'd almost forgotten how much fun this movie is.
Rock Hudson was always great at playing a first class heel who needed a woman to reform him. 😂
I envy you getting to watch Pillow Talk for the first time.
Oscar-winning screenplay and Doris Day was nominated for Best Actress, rare for a comedy. And of course Thelma Ritter received a Best Supporting Actress nomination. Such a delightful film. Another great one I highly recommend is Teacher's Pet with Doris and Ckark Gable. That has an Oscar-nominated screenplay as well as a great. Oscar-nominated performance by Gig Young as Best Supporting Actor.
Doris Day was one of the great singers to come out of the big band era. She is the only one I know who can sing a smile. She was also a superb actress. You should watch "Midnight Lace" (1960) for her in a serious role.
The radio station we played all the time when I was growing up played a lot of Doris Day singing . Here was one of my favorites: czcams.com/video/3FOTzC-0xg0/video.html
Yes, another serious role where she also gets to do some fabulous singing is in “Love Me or Leave Me.” (1955) She holds her own in that film against powerhouse actor James Cagney, and that is not an easy thing to do.
@@Dej24601 Oh so true! She seemed to have had a positive experience with him though: czcams.com/video/3Ktl1PfcpwA/video.html (about 3:20 for the section on Cagney). Cagney was a powerhouse and one of the best around and he does seem to have been generous with his costars and other actors.
@@Dej24601 She never gave a bad performance. Even in a piece of musical fluff like Calamity Jane, she managed to show some depth. That movie was mostly about the songs and it is worth watching just for that. She was a great singer.
@@TedLittle-yp7uj one of my favorite films when I was a kid was “Jumbo” with some lovely songs, and she was very convincing as a circus athlete.
The Doris Day/Rock Hudson movies of the 60s were the best. Thank you for the upload 👍🎥🍿👌 PS they don't make movies like this anymore. A shame huh?
One thing to note. Doris Day and Rock Hudson were very close friends. When Rock Hudson was dying of AIDS it was a media frenzy you couldn't believe. A lot of people who knew Rock were afraid to talk about or support him at the time. Doris Day was one of the only ones to stick by him, as well as Elizabeth Taylor.
Elizabeth Taylor starred with Rock and James Dean in his final role in the epic movie Giant.
Doris Day was also a huge animal advocate. I believe she started the first dog friendly hotel. At least one of the first in the U.S. She also started the Doris Day Pet Foundation. Now it's called the Doris day Animal Fund. Her non-profit helped to find good homes for animals that would otherwise be put down. It also did spay and neutering.
I don’t think anyone has reacted to this movie. It is nice to see people appreciate the old movies.
Doris Day's film career is well worth exploring. After co-starring in Hitchcock's 1956 remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much", Day went on to make some delightfully sophisticated comedies in the 60's, three of which featured Rock Hudson and Tony Randall. "Lover Come Back" has always been a personal favorite of mine.
Back then, it wasn’t unusual to pick up the telephone only to hear people already talking and they were not talking to you. It was called a party line.
Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall starred in three films together. ‘Pillow Talk (1959)’, ‘Lover Come Back (1961)’, ‘Send Me No Flowers (1964)’. My favourite of these films is Lover Come Back. I also enjoy Doris Day in ‘Calamity Jane (1953)’ and ‘Teacher’s Pet (1958)’.
My favorite is "Send Me No Flowers," but they're all fun.
@@billolsen4360 i love the grocery scene.
Tony Randall is always cute.
Thelma Ritter is one of my favourite actresses ever!! She always adds sass!
Thelma Ritter is a legend - my favourite films of hers are 'A Letter to Three Wives' and 'The Mating Season' where she is, for once, the central character.
She's awesome!!!
When I first saw this Movie at the Paramount theatre they had
a Spectacle live Rock and Roll Show What a night that was
Please more of it! "Lover come back", "Send me no flowers", "Move over, Darling"... there is so much more!!! ❤
Doris Day was originally a singer, she started out with the Les Brown band (Big Band type) and had two number 1 singles in 1945. Mrs. Walker (the lady with the huge house and mom of Toney) was Effy in the Maltese Falcon, Boggies secretary. This is a very underrated movie.
What a funny movie this is! A true classic. Glad you loved it!
With Six You Get Eggroll is a great one with Doris Day. 1968.
Doris Day did another great romcom in 1963 with James Garner, "Move Over, Darling," with Thelma Ritter as her mother-in-law. A woman comes home after years on a desert island following a shipwreck on the very day her husband gets her declared legally dead and married to a new wife.
Also check out "That Touch of Mink" with Doris Day and Cary Grant and - especially - "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" with Tony Randall and the amazing Jayne Mansfield. Some of the funniest writing ever and you'll wonder how the Hayes Code let a lot of the dialogue stay in the film.
I was in junior high the first time I saw this, so, of course, in my head I kept thinking "🎶 you are my irritation".
Wow. You know what a party line is! I'm impressed.
Thelma Ritter is very good in "REAR WINDOW". WORTH WATCHING!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
He's already watched it! Hello!
One of my favorite Doris Day movie Another great one is "That Touch of Mink" with Cary Grant. Another with Rock Hudson is "Send Me No Flowers".
There are a bunch of movies like this one made in the "old days." Discovering them on your own is part of what make them special. I know at two movies that I know you would like but won't ruin you discovering them on your own.
Yay! I am so happy to see a reaction to Pillow Talk! 😊
One piece of advice on your thumb nails, they aren't eye-catching. I almost missed this reaction. The title fonts and colors do not stand out. I noticed the same thing on Legends of the Fall, wrong font and no use of color somewhere to catch the eye. Just some feedback.
Might I suggest another Doris Day movie? It's called With Six You Get Eggroll. One of my faves. Love her movies. Fun reaction.
Love me some old school Doris Day movies! This is one of my favorite ☺️
The split screen was a pretty new idea at that time. It was said back during WW2 the troops would say Rita Hayworth was the girl they wanted to go out with but Doris Day was the one they wanted to come home to. Doris had a string of great 1960's comedies with Lover Come Back, Send Me No Flowers, Move Over Darling and The Thrill of it All. Her male co stars were Rock Hudson, Cary Grant and James Garner.....lucky guys.
I used to love watching this when ever it cam on the tv. Such fun.
Delightful!
I remember my parents' party line in the early 60s, from 60 years later it's impossible to explain it to those born past 1970.
The Kinks had a song called "Party Line":
Hello, who's that speaking, please?
I'm on a party line
Wonderin' all the time
Who's on the other end?
Is she big, is she small?
Is she a she at all?
Who's on my party line?
Wish I had a more direct connection
This party line was here when I arrived
And I'm not voting in the next election
If they don't do something about finding out
The person who is on my party line
I'm on a party line
I'm on a party line
I think you would absolutely enjoy Thelma Ritter in two very delightful comedies The Model and the Marriage Broker and The Mating Season. Plus you'll discover two beauties Jeanne Crain and Gene Tierney!!!
We had a party line for a while, just because it was cheaper.
Excellent choice. Thanks, Shandor.
Great reaction as usual. This one is so fun !
I've never watched this movie. I'm not even sure why I watched this reaction. But I sure had a great time watching along!
You might enjoy Down With Love. It's not a parody, more an homage to the Rock and Doris films. It was made 20 years ago with Renee Zelwegger and Euan McGregor.
You probably already know this but if not look this up. Thelma Ritter starred in ‘Miracle on 34th Street (1947)’, Titanic (1953)’, and ‘Rear Window (1954)’.
And The Misfits with Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (1961)
@@jwes869 Such talent. The likes of which we will never see again.
Doris Day is a fine actress.
The 1956 movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is a fine movie and she gave a really superb performance in it.
A remake of an earlier Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name.
It's a shame that the "Ya Ya Roly, Poly..." scene wasn't shown in full during this video.
Pillow Talk (1959) was the first of three romantic comedies starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. These were hugely successful and far superior to today’s cheap, tacky ‘rom-coms’. You must check out the other two. These were:
1. “LOVER COME BACK” (1961)
In this film, they play rival advertising executives who unwittingly fall in love with each other.
2. “SEND ME NO FLOWERS" (1964)
This was their third and final film together. Hudson plays a hypochondriac who believes he is dying and tries to find a new husband for his wife, played by Day.
However, there were a few other excellent, charming and fun romantic comedies I’d also highly recommend:
“COME SEPTEMBER” (1960)
With Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida
“IT STARTED IN NAPLES” (1960)
With Sophia Loren and Clark Gable
“THE THRILL OF IT ALL” (1963)
With Doris Day and James Garner
“TEACHER’S PET” (1958)
With Doris Day and Clark Gable
I screamed! My favorite rom-con, although these were referred to as sex comedies, about sex but not overtly showing it
Rock Hudson, a huge heart throb of the 50s came out as Gay late in his career
I always love Doris Day my first love always put a smile
To my face, she was a triple threat and was the number-one star
for four years in a row lived to ninety-seven
Jan's boss was the croupier in Casablanca, or am I imagining that?
Saying that some guys are devoted to their mothers and like to collect cooking recipes is a euphemism for being gay. That is why the Doris day character said “you are sick“. Brad was implying that if a man would take a woman to a hotel and not try anything that must mean he is not interested in women.
Had to subscribe once I heard "Rocky Hudson." If you like this "Talk," you should check out the Day-Hudson-Randall follow-up, "Lover Come Back."
Ok, your comment at 18:45 “Watching this in 2024, y’know, most western countries having gone absolutely crazy on this stupid s-t” - has won me as a subscriber. I agree 100%. I’ve just subscribed to you.
Oops! It seems I’m already subscribed. I didn’t think I was 🤷🏻♂️
DORIS DAY MOVIES ARE GREAT, ESPECIALLY WITH ROCK HUDSON!!! TONY RANDALL'S IN MANY, TOO!❤❤❤❤👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤❤❤❤👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻SOME SUGGESTIONS---
"SEND ME NO FLOWERS"
"MOVE OVER, DARLING"
"LOVER COME BACK"
"THE THRILL OF IT ALL"
While the gender politics of this show their age it's still a delightful view if you don't let get in the way.
I share your love of Thelma Ritter who made any film better. Any movie she made is worth watching because of her presence but two I'd recommend, one dramatic one comic for both of which she was Oscar nominated.
"Pick-Up on South Street" is now considered a seminal noir and offers her the role which was the most outside her established persona but which she handles beautifully. A terrific film that also costars Richard Widmark and Jean Peters.
The more lighthearted one is "The Mating Season" which I believe someone else mentioned. Although she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her part she's really the lead character and a bit of studio politics were involved in her placement. The film costars Gene Tierney who at the time was one of 20th Century Fox's top female stars so she never would have been considered a supporting actress in any picture she appeared in thereby placing Thelma there though she has more screen time and the film revolves around her story. It's a delightfully down to earth charmer with Thelma (mother of the groom who has never met her daughter-in-law) being mistaken for the new maid and deciding to play along.
Before Pillow Talk most of Doris Day's films were musicals (she was one of the top recording artists of the later 40's, 50's and into the 60's) but afterwards she concentrated mostly on comedies, usually singing the title song over the credits. Her best performance came in the 1955 biography of 20's singer Ruth Etting "Love Me or Leave Me" (she should have scored a nomination for her work) costarring James Cagney. Other movies of hers to seek out "Romance on the High Seas" (her screen debut-a starring role she stepped into to replace a pregnant Betty Hutton), "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (directed by Alfred Hitchcock), "The Thrill of It All", "Calamity Jane" and her other two pairings with Rock Hudson "Send Me No Flowers" & "Lover Come Back" though most of her films are at least enjoyable time passers.
Like Doris "Pillow Talk" provided a sea change in the direction of Rock Hudson's career. Before it most of his films were either melodramas or swashbuckling adventures but after he also turned more to comedy, though he interspersed more dramas and action flicks in between than Doris did. He was a favorite of director Douglas Sirk, really more of a protégé, Sirk cast him in the film that made him a star "Magnificent Obsession" (a hugely successful but drippy melodrama) after years of Rock working his way up the ladder and then used him many times after that in a most successful partnership. Some of the better films they worked on together-"Written on the Wind" (considered by many to be Sirk's peak), "The Tarnished Angels" and "All That Heaven Allows" . Others of his filmography very much worth seeing-"Come September", "Giant", "This Earth is Mine" "The Last Sunset", "Bend of the River" and the film he thought was his best work the complex and very dark "Seconds".
You should watch That Touch of Mink. In it Doris Day chases Cary Grant.
Have you ever seen "That Touch of Mink"? Doris Day and Cary Grant.
TONY IS NICK ADAMS...WHO WAS TV STAR!!!❤
Calamity Jane!
Yes, a great musical and a delightful movie!!!
First!!!!
TWO OLD CLASSICS WITH SAME ACTORS, DIFFERENT GENRES
FALLING IN LOVE
DEER HUNTER
The reason the movie looks nice is because of Technicolor.